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Does anyone know how trains accessed Salkeld Street Parcels Station in Glasgow?
Browsing through old LMR Working Timetables from the 1970s, among other interesting workings on the WCML are a number of daily trains to and from Glasgow Parcels Station.
As I understand it, this was a dedicated parcels depot opened by BR at a former inner-city goods yard following closure of Glasgow St Enoch & Buchanan St stations.
Looking at rail maps and track diagrams, the Salkeld Street yard seems a difficult place to access from the WCML. In fact inconvenient from any direction apart from the Paisley lines.
Does anyone remember which route(s) main-line trains used to get to the Parcels Station?
- Ran into Glasgow Central and were drawn back?
- Along the Clydesdale lines from Larkhall Jn then reversal at Shields Jn?
- The long way around via G&SW and Newton-on-Ayr?
Whichever way it was, it must have been a bit of a faff.
Browsing through old LMR Working Timetables from the 1970s, among other interesting workings on the WCML are a number of daily trains to and from Glasgow Parcels Station.
As I understand it, this was a dedicated parcels depot opened by BR at a former inner-city goods yard following closure of Glasgow St Enoch & Buchanan St stations.
Looking at rail maps and track diagrams, the Salkeld Street yard seems a difficult place to access from the WCML. In fact inconvenient from any direction apart from the Paisley lines.
Does anyone remember which route(s) main-line trains used to get to the Parcels Station?
- Ran into Glasgow Central and were drawn back?
- Along the Clydesdale lines from Larkhall Jn then reversal at Shields Jn?
- The long way around via G&SW and Newton-on-Ayr?
Whichever way it was, it must have been a bit of a faff.
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